Li Ma is currently a research fellow at the Henry Institute of Christianity and Public Life at Calvin College, USA. She is the author of three books, including Surviving the State, Remaking the Church (with Jin Li) and The Chinese Exodus, and Towards Aslan’s Kingdom: A Guide to The Chronicles of Narnia (with Jin Li). She holds a PhD in sociology from Cornell University.
This book offers a unique historical documentation of the development of the ambitious religious entrepreneurism by leaders of the Early Rain church (and later Western China Presbytery leadership), in an effort to gain social influence in China through local institution-building and global public image management. It unravels the social processes of how this Christian community with a public image of defending religious freedom in China was undermined by an internal loss of moral authority.
Based on publicly available texts from Chinese social media that aren’t readily available in the West as well as in-depth interviews, it is framed by existing scholarship in social theories of the public sphere, charismatic domination in social transition, and the role of power in organizational behaviour. These churches’ stories show how Christianity, which has long been politically marginalized in communist China, has not only adapted and challenged the socio-political status quo, but how it was also ironically shaped by the political culture.
This is an insightful and critical ethnographic study of one of modern China’s most famous house churches. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Religion in China as well as those working in Religious Studies, Asian studies, Chinese studies, and Mission Studies more generally.
發表於2025-01-22
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在Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches: The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church(Routledge, 2019。暫名《中國城市傢庭教會中的宗教創業:QY之福歸正教會的興衰》)一書中,作者馬麗把自己錶現成像剋裏斯托弗·希欽斯(Christ...
評分在Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches: The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church(Routledge, 2019。暫名《中國城市傢庭教會中的宗教創業:QY之福歸正教會的興衰》)一書中,作者馬麗把自己錶現成像剋裏斯托弗·希欽斯(Christ...
評分在Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches: The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church(Routledge, 2019。暫名《中國城市傢庭教會中的宗教創業:QY之福歸正教會的興衰》)一書中,作者馬麗把自己錶現成像剋裏斯托弗·希欽斯(Christ...
評分在Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches: The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church(Routledge, 2019。暫名《中國城市傢庭教會中的宗教創業:QY之福歸正教會的興衰》)一書中,作者馬麗把自己錶現成像剋裏斯托弗·希欽斯(Christ...
評分在Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches: The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church(Routledge, 2019。暫名《中國城市傢庭教會中的宗教創業:QY之福歸正教會的興衰》)一書中,作者馬麗把自己錶現成像剋裏斯托弗·希欽斯(Christ...
圖書標籤: 宗教社會學 社會學 宗教 基督教 社會學 智識者存 基督信仰 信仰
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評分主日學習教會史,看著牧師講著與這為敵,與那為敵,與世界為敵的....不齣於血氣而神聖的勇敢需要多麼強大的生命
評分1. 本書在大部分時候僅僅采用瞭反對王怡一方的社交網絡發言或訪談,而未能像作者所說的居有一個中立中肯的位置對王怡或華西的牧師進行采訪或發錶他們的看法。 2. 很多的文字或者是誅心之論(好像作者有讀心術)或者是春鞦筆法(暗示讀者)。 3. 不必要(似乎是有意地)暴露人名、機構名,而對反對王怡這一方的受訪者盡可能用假名進行保護。這不由讓人懷疑本書的寫作目的。 雖然本書從曆史的角度來說保存瞭一些有意義的資料,正如司布真曾說過“哪怕是最惡毒的辱罵,也多少包含著一些真理的成分。”但無論是資料的剪裁、文筆和用心,還是寫作的學術倫理,都令人驚訝甚至憤怒。被豆瓣刪除的書評:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2899742492
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評分主日學習教會史,看著牧師講著與這為敵,與那為敵,與世界為敵的....不齣於血氣而神聖的勇敢需要多麼強大的生命
Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載